Tools to Better Lead, Manage and Motivate People and Improve Results

The Profile XT

— A multi-purpose assessment that is used for selection, coaching, training, promotion, managing, team building, right-sizing, and succession planning. It is a powerful and dynamic management tool that employs 21st Century technology to put the right people in the right jobs. It is administered on the Internet and reports are immediately available.

Profiles WorkForce Compatibility

— A tool for measuring the compatibility between a manager (executive, director, supervisor, team leader) and their employees. Productive working relationships are created when you know more about your similarities and differences. You and your people benefit by a better understanding of how you can work together to realize both your individual and cumulative potential. This WorkForce Compatibility Report consists of Profiles Summary, Characteristic Comparisons, Working Together reports and Next Steps.

CheckPoint 360º

— A powerful professional development tool, that positively impacts an individual’s growth and career, and an organization’s success. For managers, supervisors, and others in leadership positions, it can facilitate peak performance that generates improved productivity. CheckPoint quantifies a participant’s competencies, verifies the results from a variety of perspectives, and identifies ways to enhance skills.

LPI 360 

-A comprehensive leadership development tool created by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner as part of The Leadership Challenge suite of programs and services. These programs are proven to cultivate and liberate the leadership potential in every person, at every level in any organization. This premier 360-degree leadership development tool includes: the LPI Self (completed by the Leader) and the LPI Observer (completed by others chosen by the Leader). 

The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) was developed through a triangulation of qualitative and quantitative research methods and studies. In-depth interviews and written case studies from personal-best leadership experiences generated the conceptual framework, which consists of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®:

• Model the Way
• Inspire a Shared Vision
• Challenge the Process
• Enable Others to Act
• Encourage the Heart

The actions that make up these practices were translated into behavioral statements. Following several iterative psychometric processes, the assessments were created and administered to managers and non-managers across a variety of organizations, disciplines, and demographic backgrounds.

Backed by 30 years of original research and data from millions of leaders around the world, the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) is the cornerstone of The Leadership Challenge model. Discover how this 360-degree assessment instrument can help you inspire, engage, and develop your top talent to meet whatever leadership challenges lie ahead.

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The Leadership Challenge Two-Day Workshop Benefits

We are now offering this workshop to individual organizations on a private basis!

 Based on Kouzes and Posner's book, The Leadership Challenge, this immensely practical and hands-on program is designed to inspire, engage, and help participants develop the leadership skills needed to meet whatever leadership challenges lie ahead.

 Managers, individual contributors, volunteers, pastors, government administrators, teachers, school principals, students, and other leaders who use The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® more frequently are seen by others as better leaders. For example:

They're more effective in meeting job-related demands.

They're more successful in representing their units to upper management.

They create higher-performing teams.

They foster renewed loyalty and commitment.

They increase motivational levels and willingness to work hard.

They promote higher levels of involvement in schools.

They enlarge the size of their congregations.

They raise more money and expand gift-giving levels.

They extend the range of their agency's services.

They reduce absenteeism, turnover, and dropout rates.

They possess high degrees of personal credibility.

In addition, people working with leaders who demonstrate The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® are significantly more satisfied with the actions and strategies of their leaders, and they feel more committed, excited, energized, influential, and powerful. In other words, the more people engage in the practices of exemplary leaders, the more likely it is that they'll have a positive influence on others in the organization.

 

Workbooks, Training Materials, and Self-Portion of the LPI Assessment Included

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What American Football Can Teach Organizations About Leadership

If you follow American football at all, you can't miss this year's debate over intangible leadership skills and technical position skills.

The spotlight of this debate is a quarterback who has been in the NFL for 2 years.  His critics say he cannot throw the football. Yet his ardent followers say his innate leadership qualities and a will to win  overshadow his technical skill deficiencies.

We agree with Jim Collins, to succeed, "an organization must get the right people on the bus and in the right seats," However, leadership requires certain soft skills that we believe can be taught.

Kouzes and Pozner, in their book, The Leadership Challenge, identify 5 qualities of exemplary leaders.

Lets go back to our young quarterback to see if Kouzes' and Posner's qualities are present in the young athlete.

• Model the Way- Does giving 110% on every play  meet Kouzes' and Posner's criteria?
• Inspire A Shared Vision- Does  inspiring his teammates and fans that victory is possible, no matter the circumstances, meet Kouzes' and Posner's criteria?
• Challenge the Process- Does turning the assumptions that drive the modern game of American football on its head, meet Kouzes' and Posner's criteria?
• Enable Others to Act- Does the read-option put the power to enable his teammates in the young quarterback's hands? Does this meet  Kouzes' and Posner's criteria?
• Encourage the Heart- Does the young quarterback's passion for the game, meet  Kouzes' and Posner's criteria?

This is the question when searching for and training leaders:
Must they have all the technical skills that their followers and team possess? Or rather, can they learn a model of leadership that will enable any organization to thrive regardless of the leaders technical know how?

Conversely, does promoting technically great individual contributors or managers to positions of leadership, present great challenges, without proven leadership training?

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Motivation

According to Psychology Today

"Motivation is literally the desire to do things. It's the difference between waking up before dawn to pound the pavement and lazing around the house all day. It's the crucial element in setting and attaining goals—and research shows you can influence your own levels of motivation and self-control. So figure out what you want, power through the pain period, and start being who you want to be."

 

We believe motivation is the motive to take action.

 

How do you motivate others to take action? How do you motivate others to achieve superior results?

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Leader Vs. Manager

• Are you a good leader or a manager?
• What is the difference? 
• Does a team have to have a leader?
• Does a leader question norms, assumptions, and the usual methods?
• Who sets the strategy?
• Who carries out the strategy?

Tell us your opinion-




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